Our Cabinet of Feral Data Curiosities was shown at the Feral Bodies, Synthetic Rituals exhibition organised at the Uroboros 2023 festival in Prague’s Petrohradská Kolektiv – Jedna Dva Tři Gallery.
The Cabinet is an interactive installation presenting our ongoing investigation of feral ways of knowing, being, and living-with diverse more-than-human ecologies.
On display are feral data artifacts such as woven sashes, multispecies tattoos, short dérive films, and an eel trap capturing environmental knowledge and cosmologies of various more-than-human habitats including Colombian chagras, Bohemian forests, Croatian wetlands, and the Gunditjmara Country. Festival participants are invited to spend time with the artifacts and delve into the stories – of feral cohabitation and care as well as power struggles and structural inequalities – that they weave together. The Cabinet installation is accompanied by a participatory dérive inviting everyone to drift with the Petrohradská Kolektiv building and its shapeshifting more-than-human ecologies.
The Cabinet engagements situated in Petrohradská are followed by an experimental, performative walk with the Křivoklátsko forest guided by the Open Forest Collective member Chewie.
